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Government had to be limited both because it was dangerous if it got too powerful and because it was not supposed to provide for the highest things in life.

In Progressivism, the domestic policy of government had two main concerns. First, government must protect the poor and other victims of capitalism through redistribution of resources, anti-trust laws, government control over the details of commerce and production: i.e., dictating at what prices things must be sold, methods of manufacture, government participation in the banking system, and so on. Second, government must become involved in the "spiritual" development of its citizens -- not, of course, through promotion of religion, but through protecting the environment ("conservation"), education (understood as education to personal creativity), and spiritual uplift through subsidy and promotion of the arts and culture.

Progressives therefore embraced a much more active and indeed imperialistic foreign policy than the Founders did.

Increasingly, students are buying an "experience" instead of earning an education, and, in the competition to attract customers, that's what's colleges are selling.

The common experience is that getting admitted is the most exhausting part. After that, the struggle mainly is financial. But at the major universities, most professors are too busy to care about individual students, and it is easy to become lost amid a sea of equally disenchanted undergraduates looking for some kind of purpose—and not finding it.

Academically Adrift ends on a depressing note: "A renewed commitment to improving undergraduate education is unlikely to occur without changes to the organizational cultures of colleges and universities." Institutions are inherently conservative; they do not change easily. Many leaps of faith are necessary, and the people involved—teachers, students, parents, administrators, lawmakers, and others—have so many fundamental disagreements about the purposes of higher education that it is hard to know where to begin the conversation. It's far easier to make cuts to an inherently broken system than to begin building something new.

THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS by Thorstein Veblen

Contents Chapter One ~~ Introductory Chapter Two ~~ Pecuniary Emulation Chapter Three ~~ Conspicuous Leisure Chapter Four ~~ Conspicuous Consumption Chapter Five ~~ The Pecuniary Standard of Living Chapter Six ~~ Pecuniary Canons of Taste Chapter Seven ~~ Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture Chapter Eight ~~ Industrial Exemption and Conservatism Chapter Nine ~~ The Conservation of Archaic Traits Chapter Ten ~~ Modern Survivals of Prowess Chapter Eleven ~~ The Belief in Luck Chapter Twelve ~~ Devout Observances Chapter Thirteen ~~ Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interests Chapter Fourteen ~~ The Higher Learning as an Expression of the

world economy has continued its expansion

2014 economic global growth is thought likely by major forecasters to be a bit higher than in 2013

growth is coming from the advanced countries

Research examining student achievement in block-scheduled schools compared to traditional schools showed mixed and inconclusive results

Most research about block scheduling and classroom instruction, as with research on school climate, used student, teacher, and parent questionnaires and surveys.

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Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators.”

liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-to-one.” He also related his concern that on his own campus, the Office of Student Affairs “was organizing many overtly progressive events . . . without offering any programming that offered a meaningful ideological alternative.”